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housekeeping purposes. Its URL:
http://technicaleditor.freeforums.org/post168.html#p168.
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the Expression suite would also have numerous errors for
version 3. The bottom of each page has a feedback link for entering
emailed errata, so I corrected a couple dozen technical errors in that
manner in only about 25% of the help file that I read so far...
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GUI itself. So, creating and further expanding
another OOo user guide could expand the use of Writer into mostly
uncharted waters, for the vast majority of its users.
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On 3/2/2010 7:54 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
A tutorial I would like to see would be a definitive, detailed guide
for employing Writer with master documents for creating books and
such. Master documents is a major area where Writer compares
unfavorably with Adobe
tions that OOo has.
If any writer or team of writers and editors wants to author/edit such a
tutorial, I would volunteer as its lead technical editor.
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their comments and edits directly on the PDF, using only common
Adobe Reader.
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) that the message has been read. Alerts are used
to provide simple confirmation of an action, or include program
termination notices or confirmation due to crashing
or intentional closing by user. Though
this is a frequent interaction pattern
for modal dialogs, it is also
criticised by usa
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
If anybody wants a DocBook 4.5 or DocBook 5.x templates, I could do a
Structured FrameMaker implementation of them as I already produced
the FrameMaker EDD files from the DocBook 4.5 and 5.0 DTDs, although
Norman Walsh never completed the DTD for
BTW, it's consistent... (w/o an 'a').
What flavor of DocBook is OOo planning to use: 4.1.2 (what Writer "has,"
so to speak), 4.5 the final version with a normative DTD, or the
two-year old 5.0 (w/o a normative DTD, or a complete DTD, BTW)?
After that choice is made, any DocBook document still
Nino Novak wrote:
A propos inconsistencies: Has there been a thought/discussion to use
DocBook as master for documentation?
Nino
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OOo has very primitive DocBook support. In fact, it uses DocBook 4.1.2
from eons ago. DocBook currently has been at DocBook 5 since the summer
of 2007, I believe.
I have produced DocBook 4.5 and DocBook 5 EDDs for Adobe FrameMaker,
although the DB 5 version is a very small bit incomplete becau
I'll add a pair of "Microsoft Word: Sections -- OOo: Page Styles" to
the Help at index "Microsoft Office;feature comparisons".
Did not know Word so good that I recognized that this may be a problem
for some users.
Uwe
This might help: the English version (1033) of MS Word 2007 Help &
How-t
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
This is a classic example of how users won't find what they need in
the help or the user guides if they don't know what to look for, or
are looking for the wrong thing.
This person probably came from Word, where sections are used in the
way page styles are in Writer,
OOoTextBody style, for the reason previously mentioned.
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help from an experienced user,
would greatly speed this up. Not just regarding those menu items, but
generally what should be covered in the Impress user guide regarding
sound and video in presentations.
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Does PowerPoint have a similar functionality? That might help to start a
Web sea
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Gary,
I'm still setting up my new computer (T.S. Fay killed the old one),
with Vista Home Premium. When I succeed in installing 3.0m4, I'll
let you kno
did not check any of the other OOo file
associations, but I would suspect that they are not correct if anybody
else has this problem--as evidenced by the OP on this matter.
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Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I'm cross-posting this to Docs, in case someone there (who doesn't
read the Authors list) might know of some resources for Gary and me.
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Is there some documentation of disclosed or undisclosed information
of whatever options Writer has f
How is the two-column template proceeding. I might adapt it for a
commercial project as an acid test?
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Gary Schnabl wrote:
Dan Lewis wrote:
Someone might want to change the URL on the Copyright page at the
bottom of the second column. (I am certain that userguide3 rather than
userguide2 was meant. (A very small error that as easily overlooked.
Dan
Still mouseless here. But there's a
er crashed
and a useless, jumbled mess remained after "recovery." Also, I was
unable to alter the font size in the Table Contents paragraph style.
After trying several times to save that style, I quit version 3 and am
not going to use the beta until a better Windows Vista build c
e%29.odt/download)
There were some items in the list section that apparently were never
completed or reverted to some other style. I placed a comment/note for a
couple items.
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Gary Schnabl wrote:
This screen capture from the new template shows one reason why I
don't use nor like Text body paragraph indentation:
(http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/badalign.png/download).
Do we really want indentation, seeing that its ge
This screen capture from the new template shows one reason why I don't
use nor like Text body paragraph indentation:
(http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/badalign.png/download).
Do we really want indentation, seeing that its general usage is
declining anyway?
Gary
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The list styles I created were just the basic not-fully fleshed-out
list and paragraph styles. The thought process and conceptual parts
are still missing. I knew the how and why of them (plus, only a very
few were doing much writing/editing to use them until recently) and
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
The guide material installed on the real template should include some
examples of how (and why) the various lists work--their list and
paragraph styles.
More than what's already there in my latest iteration, you mean? I put
in some (extr
e book and another (and even others?) for this landscape
layout or whatever else. Just add those extra book styles and build a
book template.
But again, having extra, unused styles is not bad in itself--just
confusing, perhaps, to those who might not know for what the extra
styles were meant.
guide) should have some
simple instructions about selecting (Ctrl+A) and deleting it in order to
create a clean blank copy before its first use. Easy to do, but it
should be located at the very start of the template.
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keeps them embedded in their
files with the textual matter.
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years old and long deprecated. Last year, I produced a
current (then) set of DocBook 5 DTD and EDD (formatting) files, suitable
for use with FrameMaker, in case anybody wants to use it.
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:53:34 -0500, Gary Schnabl
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Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Method 2
*Alternatively:*
1. Select *Tools | Options*; and on the *File Locations* tab,
double-click on “User Templates” (or single-click on
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Sat, 31 May 2008 23:06:24 -0500, Gary Schnabl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Our documents have way too many graphics. Why do we have screen
captures for showing simple tasks? There's too much hand-holding. Our
readers are capable of doing tasks withou
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
However, I am entertaining thoughts pulling the embedded graphics out
of the guides and having them linked to other companion documents for
the embedded figures or alternatively having the graphic images
linked altogether from an allied folder. The
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote,
However, there is a need to spare users from entering some areas
where the conversions to/from OOo and other apps fail. As I mentioned
before, that should be the primary impetus for having such a guide.
And having that guide's advice ch
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
> Perhaps, few of us have ever read the original Migration Guide. Of
those
who did, what parts were actually helpful? Which parts were totally
ignored? If ignored, why?
I originally put the how-to comparison tables for my own use, and then
jonathon wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Gary Schnabl wrote:
Is there really any value in a broad-brush listing of the thousands of
functions of one suite, say, MSO that can be done on OOo or not?
Tossing in my tuppence.
If the list also explains where/how to do those
want are the directions and commands--sort of a
Reader's Digest.
The print versions could embed their graphics--at little extra effort.
Besides, the graphics could be updated more easily/often when some
changes to the GUI occur while everything else remain the same.
Gary
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erve this latter function, in addition to whatever else it does.
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eficial if we ate our own home cooking and avoided using
manual overrides for our lists, unless totally necessary.
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aw.
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Matthew Copple wrote:
Thank you for the offer ‹ I gratefully accept!
I do not have any experience with Framemaker, so I welcome any information
on it. I thought I might also include a section on Apple¹s iwork suite.
Matt
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Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
If you care to, you could set up a work site on my now dormant forum
site for the Migration Guide. That way, if you had others helping,
they could create forum threads and keep down the mundane messages
off from the main OOoAuthors or this e-mail
e some recent URLs relating to MSO migration somewhere. One thing I
know is that nested tables in ODT won't migrate to MSO. The outer table
is lost.
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coach and added a few extra bucks almost a week ago. The coach also
expects Favre to return. Bret already has a daughter in college now, and
she said that her dad would return...
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ccornell wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Why is the OOoAuthors link dead on the OOo Documentation Web page?
And how long has it been that way?
Gary
? Works for me.
Uwe
Same here Gary. The link to the main OOoAuthors site leads me to the
entry page for OOoAuthors as it
Why is the OOoAuthors link dead on the OOo Documentation Web page? And
how long has it been that way?
Gary
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FrameMaker, InDesign, etc? Using a character
style--Strong emphasis, perhaps--for the introductory word(s)?
And how come OOo doesn't seem to use the ubiquitous DocBook, which was
specifically invented for documenting software?
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n the past: one for the GUI
implementation, another for the online help, and yet another form in the
OOo documentation guide.
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o platforms too.
We should address all the common discrepancies that crop up often and,
unfortunately, reliably (all the time). For me, it's some problems with
graphics, having a tab in a footnote where a space should be, bulleted
lists not converting properly, etc.
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Gary Schnabl wrote:
Jim Harris wrote:
Clearly, Jean, those are irrefutable statements.
However, I still don't see how a PDF on an OOo CD (or for an OOo
user) does anything that a native OOo document does not do at least
as well (except, of course, increase Adobe's dominance).
free
versions are available, I still purchase some proprietary or shareware
apps. BTW, not everybody produces useful goods and services for free.
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issued priorities in the publisher's specific guides.
And for spelling purposes, a standard dictionary is often assigned, such
as Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th), for example.
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are not followed in the OOo US docs. I reverse-engineered it about a
year ago in order to make it fit--using what formatting I thought was
actually employed. Perhaps, I still have the amended version (having it
survive installing Visa Ultimate). I'll check.
Gary
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Jim Harris wrote:
How is it possible to blame a software crash on data input? Is not one of the rules of good software (which, of course, OOo is) that it must detect bad input, e.g. the "problem with the document", provide a rational response (e.g. fix it, explain it), and keep going?
Is a sof
I was serious when asking you to file an issue so that QA
can have a look. Just like all of OOo, QA relies on user input.
I sent in a number of crash reports when they first occurred.
Gary
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Frank Peters wrote:
Gary,
I haven't experienced problems with Writer until fairly recently.
From "reading the mail" in some OOo forums, it appears that the
Windows Vista (and perhaps XP) implementations are not anywhere near
as stable as the previous versions. I have a helluva time trying to
bly have to
edit or whatever using MS Word and occasionally convert that to Writer
if I have so much of my time wasted with crashing or frozen Writer
documents.
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Let's see... Was deleting that extra space a one- or two-step process?
Gary
Frank Peters wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Another (minor) point. If OOoAuthors was meant to be just ONE word,
how come the web site has a two-worded OOo Authors link on the
http://documentation.openoffice.org/
Another (minor) point. If OOoAuthors was meant to be just ONE word, how
come the web site has a two-worded OOo Authors link on the
http://documentation.openoffice.org/ page?
Gary Schnabl
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Thanks, Frank, for fixing the problem I caused when I updated that
page a day
nough not to have any real
projects might be interested in doing pro bono work instead of getting
their feet in the door industry-wise before graduating.
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G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
This may be of interest to our project. Ideas?
Forwarded Message
From: Louis S
I agree. Whenever I visit Office Depot or such chain outlets, they all
have an extensive line of Avery products. The question then should then
be directed to where to assign the default, not discontinuing Avery support.
Gary Schnabl
Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton a
at OOo Docs. A
few dozen pages of progress was made before I got preoccupied with other
more pressing projects, but I may return to it at some time.
Gary Schnabl
Walter A. March wrote:
This URL from the "Commonly used words" section in _OpenOffice.org
Style Guide for U.S. Documen
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Gary,
I haven't a clue what you are using but my copy of the overview is
attached to 29679 and is in the process of being integrated. I suggest
you have a look. @uite frankly I think you have grabbed files that are
*NOT* part of the current master and are
GRS,
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> I am using a Linux varient. Remember that we have slightly different
> views on what is an error. What you call an error, I call a style of
> writing. So lets keep the use of error to a minimum. For example,
> spelling is either en_GB or en_CA.
BTW, your use of "var
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On another topic, what is the SOP for submitting copyediting of the
User's Guide (issue 29679)? Both the original Chapter 1 (from 11 March;
grsingleton) and its edited version (29 March; jondoe) contained
numerous errors, even though this chapter is only one-page lo
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Fine. However, what is your point? That I must regenerate everything
with every release of OOo? If yes, then it will not happen. I generate
the PDF when changes are made using the current stable release. However,
no one has bothered to mention what release of OOo they
marbux wrote:
Works for me. But that link to the PPL RTF version doesn't get me
anything
but a blank screen in Firefox.
No problemo with my Firefox 1.5.0.4. Try reconfiguring it.
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G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 17:39 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:14 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:15 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:14 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:15 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 10:53 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:15 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 10:53 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Hey, neat a quasi-canuk. Good, you should be used to our
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 10:53 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Hey, neat a quasi-canuk. Good, you should be used to our different
spelling. One task that needs a keeper is the Troubleshooting
Guide/Chapter. Is this something that you
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Hey, neat a quasi-canuk. Good, you should be used to our different
spelling. One task that needs a keeper is the Troubleshooting
Guide/Chapter. Is this something that you could take on? I collect such
stuff but never seem to have time to put it in the document.
You c
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